Episcopal Grace Cathedral Goes Green in Liturgical Eco-Disaster

Fresh off publicity from their recent Beyoncé Mass, Grace Cathedral is back with more liturgically questionable performance art in a worship service. This time, the San Francisco Episcopal Cathedral hosted a multi-faith service “of wondering and commitment” as part of the September 12-14 Global Climate Action Summit featuring participants on stilts dressed as trees:

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Mother Earth adorns the Cathedral’s rose window:

Episcopal Diocese of California Bishop Marc Andrus sports a cope with butterfly and bear images (is this a diocesan cross-promotion with Nature Valley granola bars? If not, it should be):

But wait! There’s more! A cello-accompanied shirtless dance segment:

Attempts to reach the trees for comment were unsuccessful; they were otherwise occupied storming Isengard.

“Attempts to reach the trees for comment were unsuccessful; they were otherwise occupied storming Isengard.”

I’m afraid you’ve confused your trees. These trees are quite simply too fruity and nutty to “go to war, to hew the stone and break the door” (LOTR III.9). No, if these trees were all that Treebeard had to work with, I’m afraid that the Uruk-hai would have hewn them down and used them to stoke the fires of Isengard. They wouldn’t even have been as useful as the Huorns Treebeard sent to Helm’s Deep, to deal with the orcs there (LOTR III.7,9).

I laughed aloud for some time watching in sheer amazement. What bombastic pagan nonsense! Then I felt a cold chill and profound grief as I pondered what false spirit was powerful enough to carry out such blasphemy in a once Christian cathedral with hundreds fawning…Lord have mercy!